LONDON (AFP) - Television bosses were forced to change an episode of a staple daytime soap opera after "dozens" of complaints over a jibe directed at Scottish football side Rangers, it was confirmed Saturday. Britain's biggest commercial broadcaster ITV said that the script for a forthcoming episode of "Coronation Street", a Manchester-based programme and the country's longest-running television soap, was altered after several fans of the Glasgow club voiced displeasure at the joke. Character Tony Gordon, played by Scottish actor Gray O'Brien, said on the show that he "could no more be interested in Rosie Webster than I could support Glasgow Rangers." According to an ITV spokesman, the dialogue seemed "to have caused some upset". As such, one of the character's lines in an upcoming episode " that he was allergic to "warm beer, the English national anthem and Glasgow Rangers" " has now been dropped. "Both comments were in keeping with the character of Tony Gordon. But we have to bear in mind that it does seem to have caused some upset so the decision was made to take the line out," the ITV spokeswoman said. "It doesn't compromise the drama of the episode and if it did then the line definitely wouldn't have been taken out." O'Brien told the Daily Record newspaper that he "certainly wasn't going out of my way to antagonise any Rangers supporters."